Total quantities of Irish linens exported from Ireland from March 25, 1751, to March 25, 1773, as delivered by Mr. Henry Betty. Yards.

Total quantities of Scotch linens, ftamped for fale in Scotland, from the ift of Nov. 1751 to the 1ft of Nov. 1773, as delivered by Mr. George Goldie.

Yards.

Total quantities of Irish linens imported into England from Chrift

mas 1756 to Christmas 1773.

Total quantities of British and Irish linens exported from England and Scotland from Jannary 1757 to January 1774, with the bounties paid each year thereon.

Bounty.

Irish. 2,345,994 Yds.

2,577,357

35832 I IO

33584 4 I

31471 12 I

The above account of British and Irish linens exported includes only fuch as are entitled to the bounty, a very confiderable, quantity

is exported above 18d. a yard, of which no account is furnished from the Custom-Houfe.

Sundry States and Obfervations thereupon.

Exports from England to Holland from 1762 to 1765 inclufive, fo

reign, viz. all the Eaft, Weft-India, and North-American com

modities to

Holland,

Ditto to Germany

£4,820,412 4 2

5,276,9,8 7 O

Decrease in the foreign

849,291 18 1
1 more, the ex-

tin, coals, falt,

All in the export to Germany, with £. 33,919 5
port to Holland having increafed to that amount.
British manufacture and produce, the latter lead,
&c. of trifling value to the whole, exported from 1.62 to 1766
inclusive,

To Holland,

4,868,221 5 5
5,3 5,659 12 7

Germany,

Although upon a medium for 20 years the exports to Holland have exceeded the exports to Germany.

N, B.

205

N. B. The total of exports to Germany and Holland from 1762 to 1766 is about

£. 20,340,000

15,330,000

Or, L. 4,068,000 at a medium per ann. Ditto from 1767 to 1771 about Or, L. 3, 66,000 per ann. which makes above . 1,000,000 per ann. lofs, yet in this ftate of decline still exhibits an export of the laft mentioned fum, viz.

£. 3,066,000 The imports from these countries for ten years back are given in at about 1,090,000 per ann.

Balance in favour of Great Britain,

£. 1,976,000

State of the linen exported from Ireland, and of linen ftampt for fale in Scotland in the above periods, viz.

From 1762 to 1766, 141,418,328 yards,
At a medium of these five

years, 28,283,665 yards.

From 1767 to 1771, 166,866,870 yards,
At a medium of these five

years, 33,373,374 yards.

Annual increase of linens at a medium in the laft period about 5,000,000 yards Annual decrease in the exports to Holland and Germany to the value of

Val. £.8,347,043

Val. £. 10,855,528

Val. £. 325,276

£. 1,000,000

N. B. Of the faid decrease in the exports . 800,000 falls on manufacture.

N. B. Since thefe calculations were produced, an account hath been laid before Parliament diftinguishing the different heads of export; whereby it appears, that British produce, particularly coal, is eftimated higher than is conjectured here; to agree therefore with that paper, the total decrease may be diftributed as follows: In Foreign goods and merchandize about

British produce,
Ditto manufacture,

£. 850,000 662,000

3,500,000

Total L. 5,012,000

Obfervations on the Evidence relating to the Ruffia Trade: as delivered at the Bar of the Honorable House of Commons, on the 5th of May 1774, to a Committee of the whole House, appointed to enquire into the prefent State of the Linen Trade of Great Britain and Ireland, by Mr. Forfter. (Originally printed for the Ruffia Company.)

"Sir, I appear here as agent for the Ruffia Company. Before I call in the witneffes whom I fhall beg leave to examine, I will take the liberty to acquaint the Committee what has been the occafion of my giving them this trouble.

"The Ruffia Company perceived, by the Report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the prefent ftate of the